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Sharing Economy : How Social Wealth Funds Can Reduce Inequality and Help Balance ths, Paperback by Lansley, Stewart, ISBN 1447331435, ISBN-13 9781447331438, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The author proposes an economy that ensures that the proceeds of economic activity and growing prosperity are shared more evenly across society, and he details the changes needed to the UK’s model of capitalism, focusing on how social wealth funds could reduce inequality and help address economic and social weaknesses. He argues that dealing with inequality requires a different economic and social model than the market-based corporate one in the UK and discusses the relationship between inequality and corporate capitalism, the dominance of private capital, the role of social wealth funds, what can be learned from their use in other countries, how to pay for the UK’s first social wealth fund, the dilution of capital ownership and the creation of a citizens payment, whether it can work, and the feasibility of social wealth funds and a citizen’s income scheme. Distributed in North America by University of Chicago Press. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()